Exploring Insurance PAC Contributions

Exploring contribution data on the following insurance PACS: Humana, CVS Aetna, Elevance, United Health, HCSC, Centene. This explores data from 1992 to 2024. In total, $28.5M has been contributed to candidates - 56% to Republicans and 43.6% to Democrats. Throughout the years, Elevance has contributed the most amount of money to candidates. I’ll have to understand this value more, but 8.5M over the last 32 years doesn’t seem like that much money to me.

PAC TOTAL
Elevance 8,498,429
United Health 7,860,825
Humana 5,474,533
CVS Aetna 3,372,700
Centene 1,779,071
HCSC 1,567,700

Contributions by Party Affiliation

Here’s a quick breakdown to see how each insurance PAC contributes by party affiliation. It looks like most of the PACS are pretty evenly split with their contributions. Elevance and United Health has contributed more to Republican candidates.

Yearly PAC Contributions

Here’s how much each PAC has contributed over the years. We see that Elevance has been making more contributions over the years, but United Health has started contributing more since 2011. Curious if the passing of Obamacare has anything to do with that.

Candidates That Have Received the Most Money

Here are the top 20 candidates who have received the most money from insurance PACS in the last 16 years (since 2008).

CAND_NAME TOTAL affiliation office state
MCCARTHY, KEVIN 231,238 REP H CA
HOYER, STENY HAMILTON 229,500 DEM H MD
GUTHRIE, STEVEN BRETT 225,500 REP H KY
SCALISE, STEPHEN JOSEPH “STEVE” 199,500 REP H LA
BRADY, KEVIN PATRICK 181,500 REP H TX
PALLONE, FRANK JR 181,500 DEM H NJ
NEAL, RICHARD E 178,000 DEM H MA
KUSTER, ANN MCLANE 163,000 DEM H NH
KIND, RONALD JAMES 161,500 DEM H WI
LAHOOD, DARIN MCKAY 160,000 REP H IL
BERA, AMERISH 159,000 DEM H CA
SHIMKUS, JOHN M 151,500 REP H IL
SMITH, JASON T 150,171 REP H MO
RYAN, PAUL D 148,500 REP H WI
SCHRADER, KURT 146,000 DEM H OR
BILIRAKIS, GUS M 145,500 REP H NA
CARDENAS, TONY 143,000 DEM H CA
PETERS, SCOTT 136,000 DEM H CA
MCMORRIS RODGERS, CATHY 135,500 REP H WA
ROSKAM, PETER 133,000 REP H IL